I generally play strong people and scary people.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.